Lugay -v- Hammersmith and Fulham LBC [2017]

5th September, 2017

The recent case of Lugay -v- Hammersmith and Fulham LBC [2017] confirmed that landlords, and especially residential landlords, owed a duty to its tenants to take reasonable care to ensure that they were not exposed to a foreseeable risk of injury – in this case, asbestos injury. Where asbestos was present in property that Hammersmith let, they had a duty to take reasonable steps to avoid injury occurring from asbestos and to reduce the risk of exposure so that it was as low as practicable. This duty did not extend to having to remove all of the asbestos. In this case, the claimant failed to establish that Hammersmith and Fulham LBC was liable for causing injury.